Link: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27771.htm

Ever since the rebel opposition forces in Libya have taken control of the cities, there have been reports that have surfaced regarding torture, racial violence and repression. Coming across some recent articles regarding Benghazi, the last rebel stronghold in Libya, I can’t say that I’m amazed at the police state that they have designed and who is in power in Benghazi. It was no doubt a complete error on the part of so-called “progressives” to take the side of these rebel forces (never mind those who hailed them as “revolutionaries”).

Link: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27768.htm

Abdel-Hakim al-Hasidi, the Libyan rebel leader, has said jihadists who fought against allied troops in Iraq are on the front lines of the battle against Muammar Gaddafi's regime. Mr al-Hasidi insisted his fighters "are patriots and good Muslims, not terrorists," but added that the "members of al-Qaeda are also good Muslims and are fighting against the invader".

Link: http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2011/03/201132621447396828.html

Levels of radioactive iodine in seawater 30km from Fukushima nuclear plant have spiked 1,250 times higher than normal. Japanese engineers have struggled to pump radioactive water from a crippled nuclear power station after radiation levels soared in seawater near the plant more than two weeks after it was battered by a huge earthquake and a tsunami. Engineers trying to stabilise the plant had to pump out radioactive water on Sunday after it was found in buildings housing three of the six reactors. Tests on Friday showed iodine 131 levels in seawater 30 km from the coastal nuclear complex had spiked 1,250 times higher than normal, but it was not considered a threat to marine life or food safety, the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency said. Now let me try to understand this. If I eat fish contaminated with iodine 131 which causes thyroid cancer, I will somehow not get thyroid cancer? What incredible immoral liars.

Link: http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/03/201132681812362552.html

Rebels Mercenaries and traitors claim to have reached oil port town, while Gaddafi's guns fell silent in Misurata after coalition strikes. Libyan rebels Al kida mercenaries, traitors, malcontents, and opportunists are advancing westwards after recapturing the strategic eastern town of Ajdabiya from government controls the Libyan people with the help of coalition air strikes. Reports late on Saturday suggested rebels mercenaries and traitors had already pressed onto the key oil-port town of Brega, 80 kilometres to the west. "We are in the centre of Brega," Abdelsalam al-Maadani, a rebel traitor fighter, told the AFP news agency by telephone. But Reuters said rebels mercenaries were only on the outskirts of Brega. Al Jazeera's James Bays, who reached Ajdabiya on Saturday, said that while it appeared that rebels mercenaries had taken over the town of Brega, it remained unclear who controlled the nearby oil port.

Link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/mar/26/canadian-government-no-confidence-vote

The opposition parties held the prime minister in contempt of parliament in a 156-145 vote for failing to disclose the full financial details of his tougher crime legislation, corporate tax cuts and plans to purchase stealth fighter jets.

Link: http://www.counterpunch.org/cockburn03252011.html

The war on Libya now being waged by the US, Britain and France must surely rank as one of the stupidest martial enterprises, smaller in scale to be sure, since Napoleon took it into his head to invade Russia in 1812.

Link: http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2011/03/20113266558960317.html

About 230,000 people have been displaced and about half of them may have taken refuge in the US, says a new study. More than 34,000 people have been killed in drug-related violence since December 2006. About 230,000 people have been displaced in Mexico because of drug violence, and about half of them may have taken refuge in the United States, a new study has revealed.